or nfl player, it would not have been appropriate. this was an entirely proper topic for a football audience. every other nfl show the entire weekend. it happened on saturday, the day before. they took a different tact. what gave me pause and in retrospect what made it flawed is that i had less time than i usually have. i usually have about 2 1/2 minutes. that's pretty tight. >> but you had 90 seconds. >> in this case i had 90 seconds because they had such interesting sound bites from the chief players and tony dungy and company handled that back in new york. >> before we go into the timeline, i want to ask you this broader question. sports is an arena a lot of people think brings people together, it's not an arena where you talk about politics or ideological differences. some people, as you got beat up over this said, why is bob costas taking a very volatile political issue and putting it on on a football game. >> i would think 90% of those who said that didn't agree with my point of view or what they perceived my voint of view to be